21 |
2018-03-02 02:33:23 |
Frank Stanford |
1948-1978 |
Contemporary |
Frank Stanford was born August 1, 1948, in Richton, Mississippi. In 1949, he was adopted by Dorothy Gilbert. In 1952, Gilbert married A. F. Stanford, a levee contractor, and the family moved to Arkansas. Stanford grew up in Memphis and the Ozarks of Arkan |
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state_id |
21 |
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ts |
title |
4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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22 |
2018-03-02 02:33:31 |
Haki Madhubuti |
1942- |
Black Arts |
Born Donald Luther Lee in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 23, 1942, Haki Madhubuti is a poet, essayist, and editor. He attended the University of Illinois and received an MFA from the University of Iowa.Madhubuti is the author of more than twenty books |
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state_id |
22 |
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ts |
title |
4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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23 |
2018-03-02 02:33:36 |
Jessica Jacobs |
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Jessica Jacobs received a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Purdue University, where she served as editor-in-chief of Sycamore Review. She is the author of Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), winner of the 2015 New Mexico Book Award in Poet |
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23 |
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4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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24 |
2018-03-02 02:33:59 |
John Gould Fletcher |
1886-1950 |
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John Gould Fletcher was born on January 3, 1886, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The son of a cotton broker, he enrolled at Harvard University but left before receiving a degree. He began writing poetry during a trip to the West Coast in 1905.After his father d |
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24 |
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4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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25 |
2018-03-02 02:34:44 |
Ralph Burns |
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Contemporary |
Ralph Burns was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1949, and received an MFA from the University of Montana. He has published six books of poems: Ghost Notes (Oberlin College Press, 2001), winner of the Field Poetry Prize; Swamp Candles (1996); Mozart's Starlin |
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25 |
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ts |
title |
4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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26 |
2018-03-02 02:34:49 |
Bryan Borland |
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Bryan Borland was born in Dumas, Arkansas, and raised in Monticello, Arkansas. He received a BA from Hendrix College.He is the author of DIG (Stillhouse Press, 2016), Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father (Sibling Rivalry Pre |
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state_id |
26 |
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ts |
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4 |
2018-02-27 05:50:56 |
Arkansas |
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state_id |
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27 |
2018-03-02 02:34:58 |
Matthew Zapruder |
|
Contemporary |
Matthew Zapruder was born in 1967 in Washington, D.C. He received a BA from Amherst College, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Zapruder’s first book, American Linden, was p |
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state_id |
27 |
<L2> state
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ts |
title |
5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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28 |
2018-03-02 02:35:09 |
Al Young |
1939- |
Jazz Poetry |
Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He attended the University of Michigan and received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.His volumes of poetry include Something About the Blues: An |
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28 |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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29 |
2018-03-02 02:35:22 |
Kim Young |
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|
Kim Young is the author of Night Radio (University of Utah Press, 2012), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the founding editor of the online literary journal Chaparral. Young teaches at |
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29 |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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30 |
2018-03-02 02:35:28 |
Andre Yang |
|
Contemporary |
Andre Yang received his MFA degree from Fresno State University. His poetry has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Hyphen Magazine, and Kweli, among other journals, as well as in the anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
30 |
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ts |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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31 |
2018-03-02 02:35:36 |
May Yang |
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|
May Yang is a first-generation Hmong-American artist, writer, and ethnographer from California. Writing under the persona HAUNTIE, she is the author of To Whitey and the Cracker Jack (Anhinga Press, 2017), which was selected by Evie Shockley for the 2016 |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
31 |
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ts |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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32 |
2018-03-02 02:35:48 |
Nellie Wong |
1934- |
|
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Nellie Wong was born in Oakland, California, on September 12, 1934. As a teenager she worked in her parents’ Chinese restaurant, and after graduating high school, she took a job as a secretary for Bethlehem Steel Corpor |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
32 |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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33 |
2018-03-02 02:36:02 |
Terry Wolverton |
|
|
Terry Wolverton is author of ten books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, including Embers, a novel in poems, and Insurgent Muse, a memoir. She's founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing studio in Los Angeles, and Affiliate Faculty for Anti |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
33 |
<L2> state
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ts |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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34 |
2018-03-02 02:36:14 |
Yvor Winters |
1900-1968 |
|
On October 17, 1900, (Arthur) Yvor Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois. While studying at the University of Chicago he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to relocate to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the sake of his health. His early poems, publishe |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
34 |
<L2> state
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ts |
title |
5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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35 |
2018-03-02 02:36:24 |
Arthur Vogelsang |
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|
Arthur Vogelsang was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received a BA from the University of Maryland and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. After working briefly in publishing, he attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he receiv |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
35 |
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ts |
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5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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36 |
2018-03-02 02:36:38 |
Burlee Vang |
|
|
Burlee Vang is the author of The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth (Swan Scythe Press, 2010) and coeditor of How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011). His prose and poetry have also appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly R |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
36 |
<L2> state
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ts |
title |
5 |
2018-03-02 02:15:59 |
California |
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id |
state_id |
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37 |
2018-03-02 02:36:50 |
Tanaya Winder |
|
|
Tanaya Winder, an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Colorado. She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Winder is the author of Words Like Love (We |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
37 |
<L2> state
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ts |
title |
6 |
2018-03-02 02:16:14 |
Colorado |
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id |
state_id |
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38 |
2018-03-02 02:37:49 |
Anne Waldman |
1945- |
New York School, Slam/Spoken Word, Beat |
A prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, Anne Waldman, was born in Millville, New Jersey, on April 2, 1945, and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her BA from Bennington College in 1966. From 1966 until 1978 she ran the St |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
38 |
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ts |
title |
6 |
2018-03-02 02:16:14 |
Colorado |
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id |
state_id |
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39 |
2018-03-02 02:37:56 |
Sasha Steensen |
|
|
Sasha Steensen is the author of several collections of poems including House of Deer (Fence Books, 2014). She teaches at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. by this poet poem The Undertow Sasha Steensen 2010 I am shown a generosity so mu |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
39 |
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ts |
title |
6 |
2018-03-02 02:16:14 |
Colorado |
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id |
state_id |
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40 |
2018-03-02 02:38:12 |
Andrew Schelling |
|
|
Andrew Schelling was born on January 14, 1953, in Washington D.C., and grew up west of Boston in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1973, he moved west to Northern California where he explored the wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas and stu |
<L1> state_x_poet
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state_id |
40 |
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6 |
2018-03-02 02:16:14 |
Colorado |
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id |
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